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| Big Young Black Camel |
| Posted January 27, 2007 by Stuart |
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Stepping through the herd... arms full of hay... into the canyon... rich of brown, red, black and white wool... long necks, thick manes, large heads, eyes, powerful legs, humps, swishing tails....
Intent on food... camels calmly shuffling about... letting me through... walking out to a clear place... putting the hay down... feeding begins... moving away... sitting on the ground, in the sun... camels go on feeding, munching, breathing, quietly...
Sitting nearby... watching... feeling their ground, huge feet pads, large woollen bodies... beneath the blue mountain... trees standing tall around... stillness filling with gestures, deep eyes, turns of head, flick of tails, random stomping feet... hanging boughs...
Two start wrestling... in the sun... older mother intervenes... Muffin and Everest nuzzle between mouthfuls... Google Mama stands apart... looking far away down the valley...
Jelly Baba looks up... big, young, black camel... leaves the others... comes over... towers above me... sitting down beside... touching furry lips to soft ear, and nose... hands groom thick, curly mane... removing twigs, lichen, tree-moss, broken bits of branch and thorny brush...
Chewing on my shoe... asking him not to... dropping his tree-trunk neck down beside me... huge head resting on lap...
I yawn... he yawns... he yawns... I yawn, and we go on yawning together for several minutes... like lazy lions... stroke his head... untangle his locks... warm breaths all over my lap... almost sleeping...
Peaceful Baba and Everest begin wrestling and barking... Jelly Baba looks up... around... rising... onto his feet... muscling off to join them...
Six months ago Jelly Baba was unruly, dangerous... several times had me jumping fences like deer... he thought I was dangerous, too... until we got to feeling each other better...
Through gentle training we are learning the feel of each other... engaging camels is learning to feel... taking the time to learn things that are there, but for which there aren't words... drawing each other along... with as much time as it takes...
And mountain, tree and sky, and also
Carolyn Resnick,
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Bill Dorrance... |
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